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Re: [HACKERS] pgsql/php3/apache authentication

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-04-27T08:02:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:

> - queries via localhost (unix domain sockets) should assume that the pg_user
> is the same as the unix user running the process.

There's no way for the server to determine the system user name of the
other end of a domain socket; at least no one has implemented one yet. So
essentially this isn't going to work.


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